Founding Classics Teacher - Inspire Excellence & Growth

Taaleem; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Harrow International School Abu Dhabi is seeking exceptional educators to join the founding team and become part of the legacy.

As part of our founding team, you will play a pivotal role in building a vibrant and inclusive community where the learning of every individual is at the heart of daily life. Guided by the Harrow values, our staff will create an environment in which every pupil is nurtured, challenged, and empowered to achieve their very best.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver lessons of the highest quality, characterised by intellectual rigour, engagement, and creativity, ensuring all pupils are challenged, supported, and inspired to achieve their full potential.
• Differentiate and adapt teaching and learning with precision, enabling each child to flourish academically and personally, in keeping with the Harrow tradition of nurturing individual strengths.
• Establish a purposeful, inclusive, and aspirational classroom culture, setting uncompromising expectations that foster curiosity, independence, and intellectual courage.
• Maintain a stimulating, orderly, and well-resourced learning environment, reflective of Harrow’s standards of excellence, and conducive to scholarship and collaboration.
• Implement robust formative and summative assessment practices, using insight and evidence to recognise achievement, inform planning, and accelerate progress.
• Embrace innovation, technology, and future-focused pedagogies to enrich pupils’ experiences and prepare them for life beyond Harrow Abu Dhabi.
• Contribute to the design, development, and continual refinement of the curriculum, ensuring it embodies academic rigour and alignment with frameworks, while reflecting Harrow Abu Dhabi’s ethos.
• Prepare pupils with confidence and resilience for assessments and examinations, equipping them with the skills, habits, and intellectual courage required for the next Harrow journey and beyond.
• Provide incisive, constructive, and timely feedback, maintaining meticulous records of achievement that inform planning and celebrate progress.
• Engage with leading educational research and subject developments, integrating innovative approaches and evidence-based practice into curriculum design and classroom delivery.
• Enrich the academic experience through cross-curricular initiatives, competitions, and cultural encounters, broadening pupils’ perspectives and fostering curiosity beyond subject boundaries.
• Play an active role in the co-curricular life of the School, contributing to electives, societies, lectures, and extension opportunities that embody Harrow’s tradition of scholarship.
• Collaborate with colleagues, sharing best practice and contributing to the advancement of teaching and learning across Harrow Abu Dhabi.
• Provide exemplary pastoral care, nurturing pupils’ personal, social, and emotional development, and ensuring that every child feels known, valued, and supported.
• Uphold safeguarding standards, child protection, and pupil welfare, complying with Harrow Abu Dhabi policies and UAE regulations.
• Communicate proactively with parents, maintaining accurate records of interactions and fostering partnerships between home and School.
• Model Harrow’s values of Courage, Honour, Humility, and Fellowship in teaching, pastoral practice, and wider school life.
• Contribute to the House system, cultivating belonging and a sense of community for pupils.

Job description

Harrow International School Abu Dhabi is seeking exceptional educators to join the founding team and become part of the legacy.

As part of our founding team, you will play a pivotal role in building a vibrant and inclusive community where the learning of every individual is at the heart of daily life. Guided by the Harrow values, our staff will create an environment in which every pupil is nurtured, challenged, and empowered to achieve their very best.